Handley-Page Victor K2 Lusty Lindy

Handley-Page Victor K2 Lusty Lindy

Handley-Page Victor K2 Lusty Lindy XL231 joined the RAF 139 Squadron on 1 February 1962, returning to Handley-Page for conversion to a B(S.R) Mk 2 in November 1963 and joining the Wittering Wing in July 1964. It was converted to become the prototype K.2 Tanker on 23 January 1972 and saw service in the Falklands War, in support of the ‘Operation Black Buck’ Vulcan raid on Port Stanley, and later in the Gulf War. It was flown into retirement at Elvington (Yorkshire Air Museum) in November 1993.